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Early Literacy: Assessment

Formative		ADDITIONAL RESOURCES • Analysis of Reading Assessment Instruments for K-3 from AIMSWEB. • Formative v.s. Summative Evaluation • What is evaluation? • The Assessment & Evaluation Processes
	Screening: A brief procedure designed as a first step in identifying children who may be a high risk for delayed development or academic failure and in need of further diagnosis of their need for special services or additional reading instruction.
	Ongoing/student performance based progress monitoring: An assessment of children’s learning based on systematic observations by teachers of children performing academic tasks that are part of their daily classroom experience and is used to improve instruction in reading, including classroom instruction. This assessment is aligned to the curriculum (which is aligned to the NJCCCS).
	Diagnostic An assessment used for students below reading level as identified by the district-approved reading program, and/or the school level Whole School Reform model, and serves the following purposes: identifying a child’s specific areas of strengths and weaknesses so that the child has learned to read by the end of grade 3 determining any difficulties that a child may have in learning to read and the potential cause of such difficulties helping to determine the possible reading intervention strategies and related special needs.
Summative
	An outcome assessment that is state-approved norm-referenced and/or criterion-referenced and is independent of a Comprehensive Reading Program.